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Imhoff, Roland ORCID: 0000-0003-0807-463X and Dotsch, Ron (2013). DO WE LOOK LIKE ME OR LIKE US? VISUAL PROJECTION AS SELF- OR INGROUP-PROJECTION. Soc. Cogn., 31 (6). S. 806 - 817. NEW YORK: GUILFORD PUBLICATIONS INC. ISSN 0278-016X

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Abstract

People see their own group as more typical of a larger, superordinate category than they see other, included subgroups (ingroup-projection). This basic effect is not restricted to verbally encoded characteristics but also expands to the domain of what people think superordinate group members typically look like. Despite the robustness of the ingroup-projection phenomenon, it could be argued that it is a side effect of an even more basic process of seeing groups and individuals as similar primarily to the self (self-projection). In the present research, the authors sought to address and rule out this potential alternative explanation of visual ingroup-projection as an artifact of self-projection to the subgroup and the superordinate group. Thirty-one participants completed three two-image, forced-choice reverse correlation image classification tasks to create subjective, prototypical images, called classification images, of (a) themselves; (b) their national ingroup (German); and (c) the larger, superordinate group (European). With the use of partial pixel correlations, the objective, unique physical similarity between pairs of classification images was calculated. Both the self-image and the ingroup image independently predicted the superordinate group image, indicating that both self-projection and ingroup-projection contribute to visual mental representations of superordinate group faces.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Imhoff, Roland UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-0807-463X UNSPECIFIED Dotsch, Ron UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-471011
DOI:	10.1521/soco.2013.31.6.806
Journal or Publication Title:	Soc. Cogn.
Volume:	31
Number:	6
Page Range:	S. 806 - 817
Date:	2013
Publisher:	GUILFORD PUBLICATIONS INC
Place of Publication:	NEW YORK
ISSN:	0278-016X
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language SOCIAL PROJECTION; INTERNAL REPRESENTATIONS; CATEGORY Multiple languages Psychology, Social Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/47101